Workshop on Scientific Computing

Second International Workshop on Scientific Computing and Applications

May 28-June 1, 2000
Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada

The second International Workshop on Scientific Computing and Applications will continue the tradition of the highly successful workshop held at the City University of Honk Kong in December 1998. The aim is to bring together mathematicians, scientists and engineers working in the field of scientific computing and its applications to solve scientific and industrially oriented problems and to provide a forum for the participants to meet and exchange ideas of common interest in an informal atmosphere. The goal of the workshop will be twofold. On one hand it will focus on the fundamental methods and algorithms for solving PDE's and linear systems of equations. On the other hand, it will try to attract the attention of the industrial community to present and discuss the applications of scientific computing in practical problems. The theoretical topics of interest are (but not limited to): Finite Element, Finite Volume Element and Finite Volume Methods for partial differential equations, splitting techniques and stabilized methods, iterative solvers and preconditioning techniques for large scale systems, methods for systems with a special structure, parallel algorithms and performance analysis. The applications will be focussed on numerical simulations in the oil and chemical industries, aerodynamics and environmental studies.

Organizers: Dr. P. Minev and Dr. Y. Lin .

Plenary Speakers:
Dr. O. Axelsson (Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Dr. R. Ewing (Texas A&M)
Dr. M. Fortin (Universite Laval)
Dr. K.Y. Fung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Dr. P. Gresho (Lawrence Livermore Laboratory)
Dr. B. Guo (University of Manitoba)
Dr. R. Lazarov (Texas A&M)
Dr. B. Lee (NRC, Ottawa)
Dr. M. Salcudean (University of British Columbia)
Dr. W. Sun (City University of HK)
Dr. T. Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Dr. Zhong-Ci Shi (Academia Sinica)

Program:

The preliminary program of the workshop is available in a PDF format here .

Proceedings:

The Organizing Committee plans to publish the proceedings of the workshop in the Nova Science Books and Journals series "Advances in Computation: Theory and Practice".
The conditions for publication are: Paper size - about 8 pages, Acceptable formats - Latex (you can download the recommended Latex macros here); or MS Word (make it as close as possible to the SIAM Latex style). The deadline for the draft papers (for review purposes) is June 1, 2000. You will be notified for the outcome of the review by the end of June and may be required to introduce some changes. Please note that the final version of your paper should be available to the editors by the end of July.

Location:

The workshop will take place in the Kananaskis Inn & Conference Centre which is located in the beautiful Canadian Rockies, near the picturesque town of Banff. The special discounted price for the participants is $90 CAD (plus tax) for a single room. Please, book a room as soon as possible because there is only a limited number of rooms available. When booking indicate that you are a participant in the International Workshop on Scientific Computing and Applications. The only other possibility for accomodation in the neighbourhood is the Lodge at Kananaskis, a part of the Delta hotels ; phone: 1-800-441-1414 (toll-free, Canada and US), 1-506-863-6310 (all other countries).

Transportation:

The nearest international airport is the Calgary airport. A bus service from the airport to Kananaskis is provided by Brewster . The organizing committee arranged a schedule for the transportation of each of the participants. Please check it and in case that the information concerning you is not correct please inform the organizers. ?? in some of the boxes means "missing information".

Registration:

You can download a registration form in Rich Text Format or HTML and then mail it to: Peter Minev, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G1.

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